21Synonyms found for cabin

Word Origin & History

cabin mid-14c., from O.Fr. cabane "hut, cabin," from O.Prov. cabana, from L.L. capanna "hut" (cf. Sp. cabana), of doubtful origin. Fr. cabine (18c.), It. cabino are English loan-words. Meaning "room or partition of a vessel" is from late 14c. Cabin fever first recorded by 1918 in the "need to get out and about" sense; earlier (1820s) it was a term for typhus.

Example Sentences for cabin

We live in a log cabin, and these roaches are everywhere.

It happened while she was sleeping in a cabin thing.

Your cabin is not yet flooded--you have not been laid off.

Perhaps for you it's a literal cabin in the woods, perhaps it's a carrel in the library.

The whole camp was collected before a rude cabin on the outer edge of the clearing.

In the rear is the cabin, its misty windows glowing wanly with the light of a lamp inside.

Perhaps it's the casual chumminess of the cabin crew.

BA's cabin crew need to wake-up and realise how well paid they are vis-a-vias other cabin crew and how replaceable they are.

You're more than welcome to go live in a little cabin in the woods, grow all your own food, and walk everywhere if you so desire.

In fact they got so drunk that they ended up having to be restrained by cabin crew and placed in plastic handcuffs.